[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why-":3,"chapter-i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why--i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why--chapter-90":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Was Supposed to Make a Match-3 Game, So What's This Earth War?!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2215757,3915,"Chapter 90","i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why--chapter-90",90,"\u003Cp>Players could team up or go solo to participate in the [Battle of Kiev (Limited Time)] story mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This story mode followed the timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Participating players would be randomly assigned to their respective faction's armies to engage with the opposing enemy. Since this mode did not affect the immersive story,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>many life-skill players also participated and experienced a bit of combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there were also those who didn't go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, in the 'Challenge to Survive 100 Days in Kiev, Day 17!' live stream room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu, who was live-streaming in Kiev, had persisted for 17 days, but his condition was not very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Imperial army hadn't attacked yet, he could still earn some money by shining shoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the Empire had attacked, who would care if their shoes were shiny? There had been no business for several days, and the little money he had on him had long been spent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Duan Yu was squatting in a corner, sitting on his shoe-shining toolbox, looking at a store in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crisp sound of glass rang out; the store's doors and windows were smashed, and several burly men with large bags were frantically stuffing things into them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of thing had become commonplace, and there were no more argumentative bullet comments in the live stream room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such scenes were happening everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu shook his head, feeling the hunger, and adjusted the settings to alleviate it significantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Empire hasn't even entered the city yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know what it will be like when they do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human nature, huh~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, after experiencing so many days of watching the sinister side of human nature, Duan Yu seemed to have become a great philosopher. Seeing Duan Yu's pretentious posture, the viewers in the live stream room mocked him one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu ignored them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roar of bombers in the sky sounded; formations of bombers streaked across the sky over Kiev, and explosions rang out from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roof of the store diagonally across was hit by a series of falling bombs; the massive explosion directly destroyed the house, and rubble buried the shopkeeper and the robbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu hurriedly found a corner to curl up and hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the roaring in the sky faded, Duan Yu returned to the corner and sat down. The city that met his eyes was already smoking everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Duan Yu, it was a novel experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, many viewers remembered the miserable state of being bombed during the 'Battle of Britain'; it was exactly the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place might be the next London.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu adjusted the live stream's perspective to the store ruins, once again refreshing the worldview of Blue Star players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw some adults and children on the ruins, tentatively walking toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu had just thought they were going to save the people underneath, until he saw a child pull out a severely wounded robber and, seeing the robber still seemed to be breathing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>lift a stone and smash it onto the robber's head, killing him directly... then skillfully looting the things on the robber's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If children were like this, others went without saying, and thus the scene before them unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star viewers watched in a daze as these NPCs in the game dug through the ruined houses and pulled various items off dead bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[No way? Instead of saving people, they smashed them to death?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Human nature is sinister...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Actually, you can't blame the streamer for acting like a philosopher; anyone who stays in this place for a long time would...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Maybe it's a matter of education? Blue Star's compulsory education is widespread, so it should be a bit better, right?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You're overthinking it; this is entirely about whether you can resist temptation. If you don't believe me, look at the streamer—starve him for three more days and see if he goes to loot things.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the bullet comments, Duan Yu's mouth twitched, but he agreed: \"Don't talk about three days; even now, I want to go loot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just that I really don't have the strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although my body in reality is fine, the feeling simulated by this virtual pod—when you're hungry to the limit, it really triggers these thoughts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fortunately, this is just a game; once you log out, the feeling is gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's why the streamer can maintain his kindness...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could finish, Duan Yu's neck was suddenly pressed by a cold iron skewer, and a trembling man's voice came from his ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't move! Stand up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hand over the box under your butt!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu was forced to stand up and turn his head to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a homeless man, looking excited, seemingly afraid yet expectant, his eyes fixed on the box under Duan Yu's butt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Made the viewers in the live stream room go crazy with amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there were also those who were comforted; after all, being robbed by NPCs was nothing new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Yu looked helpless and explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is just a shoe-shining box.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The homeless man became excited, and the iron skewer in his hand pressed closer to Duan Yu's neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Duan Yu hurriedly agreed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, okay, okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You take it, I won't move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he slowly retreated backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gleam erupted in the homeless man's eyes, his expression extremely excited; he picked up Duan Yu's shoe-shining toolbox and started running, looking back every three steps, an excited expression on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Duan Yu couldn't help but say:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brothers, I think I did something wrong...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had scared this homeless man or resisted just now, the homeless man might have just run away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, looking at his expression, he had clearly become excited after successfully robbing someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The homeless man had just run to a corner when he found a new target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved the iron skewer in his hand excitedly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scenes of chaos brought by war were playing out in many live stream rooms. The situation on the European battlefield entered a tense stage, and the heavy consequences of war made it difficult for many people to continue watching the live streams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there were also some lucky life-skill streamers who were expanding the worldview and background of 'Earth' from other angles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The live stream rooms for the [North African Battlefield] had fewer people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two or three hundred scattered live stream rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many Allied streamers were live-streaming from 'Tobruk'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the better environment of Europe, Tobruk, located on the African continent, naturally had the same biggest problem as other African cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lack of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn't just the lack of water; what was even more deadly was that the Imperial general 'Rommel' had blocked all exits of the city with armored troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The siege had been going on for more than two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Allied streamer was gnawing on a hard biscuit; in a situation where water was already scarce, he could only eat this kind of food that required water to swallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, the Imperial streamers were under Rommel's orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a cool room, they were operating machines to print leaflets to be dropped into the city, with Rommel's words printed on them:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your graves have already been dug in Egypt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months of continuous dropping had a severe impact on the Allies. Many players also realized that this was what was called psychological warfare in the [Tactical Library].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no good way to deal with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They simply couldn't break out, and support for the Allies was nowhere in sight, so they could only hold on in this place filled with yellow sand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empire was not only advancing triumphantly on the [European Battlefield] but also running wild on the [North African Battlefield], and just at this moment... 'Earth', Atlantic Ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Atlantic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fleet consisting of more than twenty cargo ships was sailing slowly under the escort of the Allies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the largest cargo ship, Song Yang, a streamer who had restarted as a merchant, was imitating the posture of other British Federation merchants holding high-stemmed glasses, huddling in the crowd and watching everyone discuss around a map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The viewers in the live stream room were also holding their breath, listening to their analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leading British captain raised his hand and drew an arc on an island on the map:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Last week, a fleet encountered the Empire's wolf pack south of Iceland.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three oil tankers were torn in half by torpedoes. The Empire doesn't even recognize the flags of neutral countries anymore; as long as it's not an Imperial merchant ship, they destroy it all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Business is getting harder and harder to do. I plan to quit after this trip.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The yellow-haired captain next to him said with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, old brother, look at this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying that, he waved the newspaper in his hand:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Washington has already loosened up; the American Freedom Federation is preparing to expand the scope of the 'Lend-Lease Act'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Starting next month, more warships and oil tankers will join the escort fleet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bearded captain sneered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you'd better pray that the Empire's iron whales don't run into us within this month.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise, we'll definitely be torn to shreds by Dönitz's wolf pack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone fell silent upon hearing this. The first British captain took two puffs of his cigar, his tone somewhat heavy:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These Imperial guys are simply too good at fighting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the Soviet Federation, I heard Kiev has been surrounded. That's the Soviet's third-largest city,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And after that, it's Moscow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yang held his high-stemmed glass, swirling the red wine inside, listening to these captains chat about world affairs, and remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the viewers in the live stream room were energized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[These NPCs are good; they can be commentators.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[They are merchants after all, unlike the NPCs on land who don't know anything.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Laughing to death, is it because you haven't been to a big city? The NPCs in big cities know a little bit.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[They are quite well-informed, even knowing that Kiev is about to fall.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[But what are those 'Lend-Lease Act' and 'Dönitz Wolf Pack' things?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>['Wolf Pack Tactics'??? I remember when Mo Xiaomo was live-streaming, she seemed to have clicked on that card.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tearing apart oil tankers? This is a bit terrifying.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yang ignored the bullet comments and silently started recording, watching these guys chat, preparing to make it into a clip video corresponding to the 'real-time map' and upload it later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of plot that supplements the world background will definitely go viral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A piercing alarm sounded across the entire fleet, and a hurried voice came from the loudspeaker:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Torpedo tracks detected! All hands to battle stations!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud noise came from outside, and firelight illuminated the night sky, penetrating the glass and entering everyone's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several large characters gradually lit up in front of Song Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Battle of the Atlantic]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real-time map on the Polaris official website quietly lit up another area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Today's 3.8k bonus + 8.5k regular update completed~ The bonus for monthly tickets will be tomorrow!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1875,"2026-06-17T10:00:24.305Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","830c29e031f289bed6b7b9bce29fa7161d674930858f9873df982276150af977","i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why--chapter-91","i-was-supposed-to-develop-a-match-3-game-so-why--chapter-89",301,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-was-supposed-to-make-a-match-3-game-why-is-thi-cover.jpg"]